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The LDV Friday Five: 16 September 2011

By | Fri 16th September 2011 - 5:00 pm

It’s Friday. It’s five o’clock. Here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the LDV week:

5 most-read stories on LDV this week

  1. Danny Alexander suggests £12,500 income tax threshold (25 comments) by NewsHound
  2. The 7 Lib Dem MPs unaffected by the Boundary Commission proposals (23 comments) by Stephen Tall
  3. MP conference fringe league table 2011: Vince is the new Simon, Simon is the new Vince (5 comments) by Mark Pack
  4. The most exciting part of the Parliamentary Boundary review proposals (14 comments) by Mark Pack
  5. Opinion: Time to face reality on conference security (51 comments) by Simon McGrath

5 sample LDV Members’ Forum threads

  1. Tips for speaking at Conference
  2. Influential liberals
  3. Nick Clegg NOW on Googleplus, where are our other MPs?
  4. Fundraising online
  5. My MP can lick his own elbow…

5 from the LDV archive

(16th September, 2006-10)

  1. Campaigning in Wales (1 comment) by Alison Goldsworthy, from 2006
  2. Sarah Ludford: my first party conference memories (0 comments) by Sarah Ludford MEP, from 2007
  3. An embarrassment of riches (2 comments) by Alex Foster, from 2008
  4. Adam Boulton writes… Lib Dems should back a Leaders’ Debate (15 comments) by Adam Boulton, from 2009
  5. Tim Farron: I’ll be a distinctive voice as President (25 comments) by Tim Farron MP, from 2010

5 top reader search returns to get to LDV

(excluding Liberal Democrat Voice or its variants)

  1. george osborne gq
  2. 9 11 pictures
  3. tim farron
  4. boundary commission
  5. andrew wiseman

5 recent Lib Dem tweets

  • @chrisjenkinson Not sure why I’m deciding which 7:15am fringes to attend. It’ll never happen #ldconf
  • @cllrmjenkins Declaring LOUISE! on today and heading to bed to dream of new constituency boundaries #nerdtastic
  • @NickThornsby Fixed-term parliaments – that’s another Lib Dem manifesto promise implemented.
  • @caronmlindsay “Where behaviour restricts ability of others to live as they choose, Liberals may be at the forefront of moves to prohibit it” #lqfw
  • @Polietics_ LIB DEMS TOOK MY AMENDMENT, GUYS. AND THIS IS WHY DEMOCRACY IN MY PARTY IS AWESOME.

    • If you are a Lib Dem who tweets, and would like to be added to Ryan’s Lib Dem Tweets aggregator, drop him an email at [email protected]

    That’s it from the LDV Friday Five. Let the weekend commence in 5-4-3-2-1…

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